WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2021 Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) joined the Governmentwide Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge to meet 100% demand for U.S. aviation fuel by 2050. The goal is to develop safe, affordable. , Renewable, and flexible transportation fuel that is available nationwide so that it will be possible to continue providing air services to American communities during future disruptions. The SAF Grand Challenge is a nationwide public-private partnership that will further develop aviation fuel. This milestone is the second stage of the SAF Grand Challenge.
In the first phase, the SAF research team created the SAF 2020 Roadmap, which sets out the goals and objectives that inform the efforts of this initiative. Over the past three years, the USDA’s National Food and Agriculture Organization has funded 15 of the 20 projects that are moving forward in the second phase. These projects will be funded by the USDA through the SAF 2020 Grand Challenge for an additional two years, and each project is committed to developing SAF-compliant fuels. In addition to the USDA, industry partners are participating in the initiative, including Chevron, Continental Airlines, DuPont, JetBlue, Shell, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines.
"As an aviation industry leader, the United States has a strong base of highly skilled innovators," said Soni Ramaswamy, USDA's Under Secretary of Agriculture. “Finding answers to urgent problems is the goal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and through the SAF Grand Challenge, we are building our current work in science, engineering, and technology and using our innovative resources to meet the challenge with potential for improvement. Our daily lives. "
“Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has joined the SAF 2020 Grand Challenge to meet 100% of U.S. aviation fuel demand by 2050. The U.S. commercial aviation industry relies on regular, safe, reliable, and affordable aircraft fuel supplies to meet this demand. The SAF Grand Challenge will develop a renewable, sustainable aviation fuel that is safe to work with today’s complex aircraft engines and has the potential to increase long-term fuel durability, ”said Secretary Purdue. "We are confident that this partnership with the aerospace industry and other government agencies and leaders will allow us to take up the challenge."
The SAF Grand Challenge is led by the Department of Energy in collaboration with the USDA and FAA.
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